 For time at last sets all things even — And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong.  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 437edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1864 - 552 pages
...man keeping the " good money warm," as the term is. Lord Byron has since said, And if we do but wait the hour, There never yet was human power Which could...search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong. Murray was like the bard's watchful man; and Weazel, equally alert, was never off his guard. At last... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...Mirth and Iunocence ! O, Milk and Water ! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days ! Stanza 80. MAZEPPA. And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was...search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong. * For her my heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain whatever impression... | |
 | Edwin Arnold Brenholtz - Radicalism in literature - 1905 - 296 pages
...the idea of killing you. To that extent I have forgiven you. "Do you remember the words of Byron : 'For time at last sets all things even — And if...but watch the hour, There never yet was human power That could evade, if unfprgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong?'... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...guide, They bound me to his foaming flank. At length I play'd them one as frank — For time at hist s; You 'd best begin with truth, and when you 've lost your Labour, there 'sa sure market Wliich could evade, if unforgiven, 420 The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Women - 1905 - 338 pages
...Byron long influenced me : — " If we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power, That could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong." No sermon, no prayer, no belief, no Divine command, rendered me neutral towards those I disliked. Neither... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 632 pages
...wild horse for my guide, They bound me to his foaming flank : At length I played them one as frank— For Time at last sets all things even— And if we do but watch the hour, \ The patient search and vigil long / Of him who treasures up a wrong. There never yet was human power... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Social reformers - 1905 - 338 pages
...forgiven him, but I never had. Christian as I was, the revengeful lines of Byron long influenced me : — "If we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power, That could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong."... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...1, 2 Wrong, — One wrong more to man, one more insult to God! R, BROWNING, The Lost Leader, line 24 Time at last sets all things even — And if we do...if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of hun who treasures up a wrong, BYRON, Ma2eppa, st, 10 Wrongs, — On adamant our wrongs we all engrave,... | |
 | John Armstrong Chaloner - Insanity (Law) - 1906 - 510 pages
...III. ''Thus time at length makes all things even. There never yet was human power That could avoid — if unforgiven — The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong". Lord Byron. 'The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked". Jeremiah. "Plus je connais... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Free thought - 1906 - 912 pages
...read outside the Bible had some passage of Byron in their minds. One that had impressed me began — " If we do but watch the hour There never yet was human power " — that could evade those who had persistence enough to wait and watch. At the precise moment announced,... | |
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